For auditions, please prepare 32 bars of a song in the style of the show. Please bring a headshot, or recent photograph, and a resume. Auditions will be seen in the order in which you sign up, so please do not contact Riverside for an audition time.

The performance schedule is as follows:Wednesday matinees at 1:30pm; Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8pmSunday matinees at 3pm

If you have any questions, feel free to call Carole Shrader (Production Mgr.) at 540-842-0203. Video submissions (with headshot, resume, and video links) can be sent toproductionmanager@riversidedt.com

Character Breakdown

Hank Williams – A south Alabama hillbilly singer, thin and black-eyed. He dresses in high-priced western suits and always wears a Stetson.Tee-Tot – A black south Alabama street singer of indeterminate age. The Waitress – The keeper of an all-night diner somewhere in the south. A cheerful, lonely person.Mama Lilly – Hank’s mother. A “Marjorie Main” – strong and somewhat overbearing.Hoss – A member of Hank’s band, The Drifting Cowboys. A big, boyish man, Hank’s age. Plays upright (“doghouse”) bass.Jimmy (Burrhead) – A member of Hank’s band, plays lead electric guitar. From Oklahoma, especially so in his speech.Leon (Loudmouth) – A member of the band and a skillful musician on many instruments, featured on the fiddle. Pleasant and taciturn.Fred Rose (Pap) – A founder and executive of a Nashville music publishing company. A Midwesterner from Chicago.Audrey Williams – Hank’s first wife, later his professional widow. A blond Alabama beauty, sweet and exuberant and sure.Shag – The pedal steel guitarist.